Senior BI Data Engineer at Vito Solutions

JOB OVERVIEW:

If you have deep understanding of analytics solutions and a keen sense of the strategic value of information to an organization then you are the right person for this role. You should be able to communicate technical information to technical teams, as well as be competent in communicating challenges and solutions to project and operational leadership. We are looking for a data engineer that will take ownership for sourcing, loading and modelling a wide range of data across our business so that it can be used by a wide variety of business and technical stakeholders.

DESCRIPTION OF POSITION:

Key Responsibilities

• Use modern development and modeling techniques and tools to implement BI Solutions that leverage data management components like data quality, metadata and reference data
• Engage with a wide range of technical stakeholders including data scientists, business analysts, data engineers, database administrators and solutions architects.
• Work with data analysts, data engineers and product owners to understand the dynamic nature that is required to support the solution that needs to be built.
• Load large, complex data sets to and make data available for a wide variety of stakeholders
• Source data from internal and external data sources, engaging with technical subject matter experts
• Identify, design, and implement internal process improvements: automating manual processes, optimizing data delivery, re-designing models for greater scalability
• Designing and building reusable artefacts to improve speed of delivery and reliability of solutions.
• Identifying performance enhancements for BI and Integration solutions.
• Define and create solution level BI and data architecture models that are aligned with business blueprints, non-functional requirements, delivery constraints, data, application and technology standards
• Ensure BI and data security conforms to information security and information governance policies and standards
• Document architecture and solutions for data acquisition, data integration and data modelling

KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS:

• Designing, building and maintaining a modern data platform, including data lakes, data warehouses, business friendly semantic layers
• Development of data warehousing blueprints.
• Data warehouse management
• Translates business needs into long-term architecture solutions
• Defines, designs and builds dimensional databases
• Object and data models

QUALIFICATIONS REQUIRED:

Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Statistics, Informatics, Information Systems, Engineering or another quantitative field / National Diploma in an Information Technology related discipline preferred

EXPERIENCE REQUIRED:

• 8+ years Data Engineering experience with a solid background in SQL within a BI or Analytics environment 
• Extensive data warehousing and data modelling experience using Kimball 
• Experience working with Orchestration tools such as (Control-M, Atomic, CA7)
• Experience in Agile development

ADVANTAGEOUS SKILLS:

• Deep technical knowledge and experience delivering data assets using SAP HANA (Calculation Views, Functions and Stored Procedure development)
• Exposure to integrating SAP HANA models with functional scripting languages (e.g. Python or R)
• Exposure to modern data platform technologies that support cloud, big data, real-time data provisioning, advanced analytics and artificial intelligence implementations, including event streaming based data pipelines (e.g. HANA XSA, Cloudera Data Platform, HDFS, Hive, Impala)
• Exposure working with Data Management technologies (e.g. Informatica Data Quality (IDQ), Informatica Enterprise Data Catalog (EDC), Axon, EBX)
• Experience in the financial services industry

**Please note : If you have not heard from us within 2 weeks, please consider your application unsuccessful.